Khawaja: amman

In cooperation with Google and King Abdullah II Design and Development Bearu (KADDB), the Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship (QRCE) has officially launched the 3rd year of the Queen Rania National Entrepreneurship Competition (QRNEC) with $70,000 of cash prizes in addition to in-kind services provided by the Centre to the winners in order to support the their mission in creating successful startups.

The QRNEC is now open for all entrepreneurs - whether you are a university student or an aspiring entrepreneur, so, everyone is invited to apply and compete for $ 70,000 of cash awards.

The additional interesting advantage for this year is that Google is offering an additional cash award for the best the online business plan, in addition to the special award that KADDB is offering for the best business plan for defense and security.

If you have a business idea in any discipline of technology (biotechnology, nanotechnology, information & communication technology (ICT), agricultural technology, environmental technology, water, energy or any other disciplines of technology) that is likely to win, present it to the Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship (QRCE) through the its website (www.qrce.org) before 19/6/2008 and start on the road to success!

QRCE has established many invaluable partnerships, this year, with many institutions contribute to the support of the center and the competition. These institutions are: Google, King Abdulla II Development and Design Bureau, Orange, Jordan Commercial Bank, Jordan Dubai Capital, Optimiza, Jeeran and Jordan Business.

Are you curious to know about the winners and success stories of the previous 2 years? Then, please play this embedded video:

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More posts will be posted here about the orientations presentations I did around Jordan.. stay tuned! :)

Special smiles for a special Eid! :)

Jood and her little cow wish you a Happy Eid this year and every year!

It is my pleasure to introduce to you Mohammad Shar'; a specialized computer programmer in adaptive technologies.

Mohammed Al-Shar', who was born blind, has exceeded the expectations of his community and today he does what most of his peers with sight might find difficult!

While many blind people have gone beyond the odds to succeed, Al-Shar' has even taken his confidence to a new level of challenging his disability by learning and mastering computer programming. Currently, he is working as a technical support and training executive for Nattiq technologies, an international firm that specializes in assistive (also called adaptive) technologies.

To know more about Mohammad and his success story I invite you to read my articles @ October's issue of JO magazine. The article title is: "Life is Virtual".

You may also view the amazing video broadcasted at Al Jazeera channel few months ago.

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It's a pleasure inviting you to this Iftar...

Yesterday, I was lucky to drive the SolarTaxi; a solar-powered car that travels around the world to promote the use of clean energy and fight against human actions that cause global warming.

Louis –the car driver and the tour director- expressed that the story has begun when he was a 15-year-old boy; his dream was simply to drive a car powered by solar energy and hence it consumes ZERO drops of patrol. But sadly, after 15 years his dream did not come true since it is not affordable now to buy such a car. That was not the end; he took the challenge and worked hard communicating with Swiss universities, research centers, private sector companies so that his dream would come true and accumulated the effort to build the first prototype for his dream car.

I look at this initiative as a wonderful evidence of cooperation between academia and industry in Switzerland, and I think Jordanian universities have to shake the hands of the private sector and work on similar R&D projects that would raise the quality of our education and contribute in the growth of vital local industrial sectors.

Oil will not continue to be the most affordable type of energy in the upcoming 10-20 years! If Arabs is not ready for such a day when other alternatives of energy would be more feasible for both human and industrial applications, they will be the biggest losers ever!!

On the other hand, This initiative rings the bell to take serious actions about the everlasting problem of global warming, and think of effective solutions that we can put into action today to rescue our planet and prevent further abuse of natural resources.

The interesting thing is that the car is equipped with GPS so that you can track it online, through its official website.

I invite you also to read the press release published at Alghad newspaper about the demonstration of the SolarTaxi at the Royal Scientific Society.

last but not least, make sure to watch this short video that I did take for the SolarTaxi...

Good Day!

Enjoy watching Jood's first bath right after her birth....

leave you with the historical video in Jood life :)

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This morning Allah enlightened our life with the birth of JOOd -my eldest and only daughter!

Stay tuned to this blog to enjoy watching and browsing Jood impressive photos and videos since the very early moments of life!

Bless you little Jood :)

It is a pleasure to invite you to participate in this invaluable workshop..

Wow! ... The white soft cotton is falling in Amman, while we are at the end of winter time in Jordan, ain't this sound sooo co00ol?

This snow was extra-surprising to each and everyone.. for me and my wife, it was really a wonderful chance to spend exceptional moments under snow fall and take special photos to share with all our friends and relatives around the world.

For me, snow time lights up a very extraordinary memories in my mind, I have no time to express them all -since I have to resume the snow fights outside, but I think posting a nice photo took during winter of 2002 would be more than enough to convey the excitement!

EnJoY!